Mon 28 August 2023: France plans to ban the abaya, a long loose-fitting overgarment worn by some Muslim women, on school grounds, the country’s education minister said on Sunday. Gabriel Attal told broadcaster TF1 that the government intends to convey “clear rules” on the matter to school officials across the country. Attal also said he […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Under “tough” plans announced by the prime minister late Saturday, the UK’s “most depraved” killers will face life behind bars with no chance of being released. “I have shared the public’s horror at the cruelty of crimes we have seen recently. People rightly expect that in the most serious cases, there […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: At least one person died and dozens more were injured in two successive explosions at a liquid gas fueling station near the Romanian capital Bucharest. Fifty-seven people were injured, some of them seriously, in the blasts on Saturday evening in the village of Crevedia, 20 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, the Romanian […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Trump’s campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state and became the first former president in U.S. history to ever have a mug shot taken. Spokesman Steven […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner paramilitary group, following a plane crash on Wednesday has been confirmed by formal genetic analysis, Russia’s Investigative Committee has said. “According to their results, the identities of all 10 victims were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight list,” […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: A second bulk cargo ship has left Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa despite Russia’s naval blockade and unilateral decision in July to cancel an international deal allowing grain exports. The ship, now named Primus and sailing under a Liberian flag, left port on Saturday morning, according to ship tracker MarineTraffic. […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: In seeking to understand the crimes of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven babies in her care, a fixation about how “ordinary” she appears to be has emerged. At times like this, we seek answers, which perhaps explains the vague sense that understanding this apparent inconsistency can teach us […]
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Sat 26 August 2023: The New York Times, CNN, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are just a few of the prestigious media outlets that have blocked Microsoft-backed OpenAI from using their content to train its AI models. The NYT banned OpenAI’s web crawler, so the Sam Altman-led business is unable to use the newspaper’s […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: August 23 will be remembered as the hottest day in the history of Milan, or at least since the Milan Brera station records temperature data, i.e. since 1763: with an average daily temperature of 33 °C, Wednesday 23 August the Milan Brera station exceeded its previous record of 32.8 °C, recorded […]
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Fri 25 August 2023: The Kremlin has dismissed rumours it had requested the assassination of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly died in a plane crash on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a briefing,”There is a lot of speculation around the plane crash and the tragic death of the passengers, including Yevgeny […]
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